Francis Taylor

Excited to be talking here on Monday re early modern weeding tools, their material profile and practical-symbolic uses!

17.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!

We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!

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09.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 5

Love the Georgical Inquiries!

07.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Had a grand time this week in Uppsala at #eseh talking on ‘weeds’, sacred history, and figurations of agrarian labour in EM England on a panel with the great @daancjansen.bsky.social and others! A lovely chance to hear plenty about the capacious field of environmental history today as well.

23.08.2025 08:13 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

The Sense of Nature: SHNH Summer Meeting, June 2025 by Josephine Koopman - Society for the History of Natural History SHNH Summer Meeting by Josephine Koopman, Researcher (Department of History, European University Institute) “The senses,” Michel de Montaigne wrote in 1588, “are the beginning and the end of human kno...

I enjoyed reading this piece by Josephine Koopman on the SHNH summer conference. It offers a wonderful summary of the presentations we heard, and teases out the shared themes our papers raised. Thank you Josephine!

shnh.org.uk/the-sense-of...
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18.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

had a grand time last week in Glasgow at @sochistnathist.bsky.social's annual meeting, hearing some wonderful papers on the senses in natural history, and getting a chance to talk about olfactory affects, hebraic philology, and biblical 'weeds'! much thanks to the society!

23.06.2025 09:07 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The words "A Sense of Nature" in white text on a deep green background. It is surrounded by historic illustrations of a locust and two butterflies.

One week until our Summer Meeting in Glasgow! 🎉

We're looking forward to welcoming everyone who can come in person to discuss an amazing program centred on A Sense of Nature 🌺🍃

Can't make it but are still interested? How about joining online below! 👇🏻
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-sense-of...

12.06.2025 21:05 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

apologies! didn't make much sense here, but your comment had me thinking

26.04.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

there is some stuff from the latter 17c that starts to label particular plants as weeds (in arable contexts), but the term seems to have a more fluid early modern jurisdiction, associated with the self-individuating potencies of all sorts of (postlapsarian) stuff

26.04.2025 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

or the indexing of a certain kind of iterative, 'environmental' labour (thinking here about the use of weed-ash as fertiliser, or the granting of weeding rights, often in the same breath as rights of pasturage or turbary, in period land leases)

26.04.2025 12:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

hello! this rings very true to me w regards to early modern 'weeds', very rarely (to me at least) the categorisation of particular botanical identities (even less species), or akin to modern ideas of 'plants in the wrong place', more often a stage in the lifecycle of Created matter

26.04.2025 12:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

talking about biblical stinkweeds at this, looks to be a good one!

15.04.2025 13:42 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Booking open: 'A Sense of Nature', SHNH International Summer Meeting, University of Glasgow, 19-20 June 2025 - Society for the History of Natural History A Sense of Nature The ‘sensory turn’ in a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines has led to innovative research exploring how sensory experiences shape cultural and historical narratives....

✨Booking is OPEN✨

Join us for our Summer Meeting in Glasgow on the theme A Sense of Nature! Two days of talking about history and nature, including museum tours 🥰

📅19-20 June
🏦Kelvin Hall, University of Glasgow

Follow the link for the list of speakers and how to book 👇
shnh.org.uk/news/booking...

13.04.2025 15:53 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 4

CECS PG is delighted to announce our upcoming talk from Uni of York’s own Francis Taylor 🍃
Join us next Tuesday in person or on Zoom to hear his talk ‘The Poetics of Imprecision in Biblical Botany, c 1680-1750’ Sign up to our mailing list to receive Zoom details, or keep an eye on our socials 🌟

24.03.2025 12:01 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1